This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by George Allen, features subject topics such as: OR Attire's Potential for Infection Transmission; Strategies for Preventing Sharps Injuries; Managing Patients with MDROs – Implementing Isolation Procedures in the Perioperative Setting; Anesthesia Care Providers – Identifying/Mitigating Potential for Infection Transmission; Urinary Catheter Insertion and Care in the Perioperative Setting; Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team; Outlining Effective Strategies for Preventing SSI; Environmental Sanitation – Review of New Technologies; Reprocessing Instruments: Focus on Eye Surgery and TASS (Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome); Skin Prepping to Maximize Positive Outcomes; Improving the process of supplying instruments from central processing to the OR using the LEAN method; Using Performance Improvement Methodology in Finding the Cause of Increase Biological Cultures in the Operating Room and Solutions for Corrections.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Preface - p. 7 8. Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team - p. 8 9. Managing Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Implementing Isolation Precaution Procedures in the Perioperative Setting - p. 12 10. Anesthesia as a Risk for Health Care Acquired Infections - p. 16 11. Surgical Hand Antisepsis: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Today - p. 24 12. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention in Surgical Patients - p. 27 13. Surgical Skin Antisepsis - p. 32 14. Improving the Process of Supplying Instruments to the Operating Room Using the Lean Rapid Cycle Improvement Process - p. 42 15. Collaboration Among Central Sterile Processing, Surgical Services, and Infection Prevention and Control Finds Solutions of Increased Positive Biologic Cultures During Flash Sterilization in the Operating Room - p. 46 16. Strategies for Preventing Sharp Injuries in the Perioperative Setting - p. 51 17. Index - p. 54
This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by George Allen, features subject topics such as: OR Attire's Potential for Infection Transmission; Strategies for Preventing Sharps Injuries; Managing Patients with MDROs – Implementing Isolation Procedures in the Perioperative Setting; Anesthesia Care Providers – Identifying/Mitigating Potential for Infection Transmission; Urinary Catheter Insertion and Care in the Perioperative Setting; Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team; Outlining Effective Strategies for Preventing SSI; Environmental Sanitation – Review of New Technologies; Reprocessing Instruments: Focus on Eye Surgery and TASS (Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome); Skin Prepping to Maximize Positive Outcomes; Improving the process of supplying instruments from central processing to the OR using the LEAN method; Using Performance Improvement Methodology in Finding the Cause of Increase Biological Cultures in the Operating Room and Solutions for Corrections.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Preface - p. 7 8. Hand Hygiene and the Surgical Team - p. 8 9. Managing Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Implementing Isolation Precaution Procedures in the Perioperative Setting - p. 12 10. Anesthesia as a Risk for Health Care Acquired Infections - p. 16 11. Surgical Hand Antisepsis: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Today - p. 24 12. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention in Surgical Patients - p. 27 13. Surgical Skin Antisepsis - p. 32 14. Improving the Process of Supplying Instruments to the Operating Room Using the Lean Rapid Cycle Improvement Process - p. 42 15. Collaboration Among Central Sterile Processing, Surgical Services, and Infection Prevention and Control Finds Solutions of Increased Positive Biologic Cultures During Flash Sterilization in the Operating Room - p. 46 16. Strategies for Preventing Sharp Injuries in the Perioperative Setting - p. 51 17. Index - p. 54
